Rame

INFORMATION

FontID: 01514RAM
Church/Chapel: Church of St. Germanus
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: Ramehead Ln, Rame, Torpoint PL10 1LG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1752 822264
Country Name: England
Location: Cornwall, South West
Directions to Site: Located near Maker, across The Sound from Plymouth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th century / 12th century [lower base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) and in Cox (1912) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Cox (1912) adds: "Circular mutilated base stone of font is also Norm[an]" [NB: it probably refers to the circular lower base on which the font now stands]. Of the font and cover, Cox (ibid.) writes: "Plain octagonal font is 14th cent., and domed cover, crowned with a dove, 18th cent." Illustrated in A Snap in Time [http://www.caerkief.co.uk/Churches/Rame.html] [accessed 20 November 2009]. The font consists of an octagonal basin of vertical side -one of which, at least, appears to be carved, others plain- raised on an octagonal stem that has spurs at the bottom making it square; on a round lower base [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3212, -4.212
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 19′ 16.32″ N, 4° 12′ 43.2″ W
UTM: 30U 413721 5575047

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood,
Notes: [CF. fONTnOTES]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Cornwall, London: George Allen & Company, 1912
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907